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John S

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My cousin belongs to a small Christian denomination, whose name escapes me now, that doesn't celebrate Christmas. Forget about Santa Claus. They don't even celebrate the birth of Jesus. They celebrate Jewish holy days.
What is your opinion of that?
Do you belong to this or to a similar Christian denomination?
 
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Actually, some Christian sects don't celebrate since it is of pagan origin. December 25th was the Roman solstice feast to the sun god. When Constatine converted, the feast was changed to the day we celebrate Christ's birth (The feast of the SON) to encourage Romans to convert without losing their party day Personally, I see nothing wrong with it, but some people have major issues with anything pagan. Over in GT there are tons of threads on this
 
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Really? They celebrate Hanukkah? Weird.

The Orthodox definitely have an "unusual" (by western standards) celebration in December but all their holidays and festivals are still decidedly Christian.

Santa Clause, as portrayed now, has little to do with Christianity. And Jesus wasn't born in December. It's proper to celebrate the messianic "advent."
 
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John S said:
Ittarter - This isn't an Eastern Orthodox denomination.
It was founded in the U.S. I knew about it in the mid 70's. No Christmas at all.
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I was just giving an example of a no-Santa Christian group.
 
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I guess that solves our mystery
 
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The JW's I was subjected to growing up the label of Christian was akin to being called the antichrist.....but perhaps the different sects have differing views on this..
 
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I've never gone to a Worldwide Church of God or anything like it but until a year and half ago my family and I went to a non-institutional Church of Christ and they do not celebrate Christmas though most mainline Churches of Christ do.

Actually, we celebrated Christmas as a secular holiday and gave presents and sang about Santa Claus and snow and jingle bells at home, but we did not sing about baby Jesus nor do anything related to Christmas at church. Most preachers pointedly avoided talking about Jesus's birth during December unless it was to preach about why Christmas is wrong.

We go to a mainline Church of Christ now. Our Christmas program at church is on the 19th.
 
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